Wood Doors

Northwest Burnside, near the bridge. A narrow double-entry set of wood doors. You had to open both doors if you needed to get something in or out that was wider than just one of the doors. That, and the fact that these original doors had many miles on them, were beat up and didn’t fit well translated into a plan being devised to replace both doors with just one wider door, and then filling in the balance of the opening with a very narrow fixed sidelight (see next photo).

As we often do, we were able to install the new door panels into the original jamb assembly. If you enlarge the photo, you may be able to make out the barrel-hinges on the left of the door. Also known as “Spring Hinges,” they allowed the door to swing both in and out. These are also known as “Double-Acting” hinges. If you’d like to learn more about barrel-hinges, you might copy the following address and paste it into your browser & then click on “Images for double acting barrel hinges:” https://www.google.com/search?q=double+acting+barrel+hinges&tbm
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